Public prices involving Karya
- Rural Indian speakers recording speech data for Karya (supplier to Microsoft and Google)
Worker pay, well above the Indian minimum wage; workers also keep a share of the data for royalties.
Press report, Context (Thomson Reuters Foundation)
about $5 an hourper hour (paid to the speaker)
- One hour of Odia (low-resource Indian language) speech data
Karya co-founder Safiya Husain's figure for what buyers now pay; a tenfold rise as big tech sought Indian-language data.
Press report, Context (Thomson Reuters Foundation)
used to cost about $3-$4, now it's $40per hour of audio
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